Information Support System (ISS)
The entire infrastructure, organization, personnel, and components for the collection, processing, storage, transmission, display, dissemination, and disposition of global patient movement (PM) information.
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The entire infrastructure, organization, personnel, and components for the collection, processing, storage, transmission, display, dissemination, and disposition of global patient movement (PM) information.
Moving patients within the theater of a combatant command or in the continental United States.
Moving patients between, into, and out of the different theaters of the geographic combatant commands and into the continental United States or another supporting theater.
A generic term for internal behavior health consultant (IBHC), behavior health care facilitator (BHCF) and behavioral health providers with prescription privileges.
A population health-based model of care focused on all patient populations, where the medical and behavioral health providers share information regarding patients and there is a shared medical record, treatment plan, and standard of care. The behavioral health provider is embedded with the primary care team and serves as a consultant and co-implementer wi...
A psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurse practitioner, or psychiatrist credentialed for independent practice or a psychology, social work, psychiatric nurse practitioner or psychiatry trainee being clinically supervised by a behavioral health provider who is credentialed for independent practice. Internal behavioral health consultant (IBHC) work i...
Equipment used for communication between individuals that are not in the same physical location (e.g., audio and video link through a webcam).
A general model that posits that biological, psychological (to include thoughts, emotions, and behaviors), and social factors, all play a role in human functioning in the context of disease or illness.
A registered nurse (alternatively, a licensed vocational nurse, medical technician, licensed mental health counselor, psychologist, social worker, or psychiatric nurse practitioner) delivering services in a care management model of service delivery.
An individual who works in primary care forty-hours per week on average with the capacity for 37.5 hours of clinical service delivery a week in that setting. Clinical service delivery is composed of a variety of activities to include, but not limited to, clinic appointments and telephone contacts with patients, multidisciplinary treatment planning, coordi...
A population-based model of care focused on a discrete clinical problem (e.g., depression). It incorporates specific pathways using a variety of components that systematically and comprehensively address how behavioral health problems are managed in the primary care setting. Primary care manager (PCM) and behavioral health care facilitator (BHCF) share in...
The PCMH is a team-based model of primary care service delivery, led by a primary care manager (PCM), which provides continuous, accessible, family-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-sensitive health care in order to achieve the best outcomes. The model is based on the concept that the best healthcare has a strong primary care foundati...
Military OneSource is a free service provided by the DoD to Service members and their families to assist with a range of concerns including money management, spouse employment and education, parenting and child care, relocation, deployment, reunion, stress and grief.
Support provided through a variety of means including, but not limited to, informal provider-to-provider consultation, structured informal consultation through the behavioral health care facilitator (BHCF), and formal consultation with behavioral health prescription specialists (e.g., psychiatrists, prescribing psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitione...
Education offered to people with behavioral health and physical conditions about the causes of their condition, and the reasons why a particular treatment might be effective for reducing their symptoms.
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